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21St Century Conservation Service Corps Initiative Project Slate – 2016 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Initiative Project Slate – 2016 The goal of the 21 st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) Initiative is to support organizations across the country that engage youth in the conservation and enhancement of natural resources on our nation’s public lands. The 21CSC Initiative supports organizations that employ youth and veterans in activities such as trail maintenance, watershed restoration and forest regeneration. Through the projects highlighted below, youth and veterans will actively participate in creating a healthy environment while learning essential skills that foster careers in natural resources. For 2016, more than $3.16 million will be awarded to 60 projects nationwide. These funds will be leveraged by an anticipated $3.35 million in grantee matching contributions for a total of $6.5 million in conservation impact. These 60 projects will employ more than 760 youth in conservation-related activities and restore approximately 5,150 acres of habitat on public lands. Alaska Advancing the Alaska Native Science and Engineering NFWF-BLM Funds: $76,000 Program NFWF-FWS Funds: $4,763 Matching Funds: $150,000 University of Alaska Anchorage Total Project Funds: $230,763 Project Description: University of Alaska Anchorage will partner with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska to provide conservation career exploration through academic enrichment activities and internships. The project will help students complete the science and math coursework in high school that is necessary for success at the university, and upon high school graduation, team them with practicing conservation professionals working in hands-on internships that continue throughout their university experience. Alaskan natives will work one-on-one with natural resource professionals from the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to complete hands-on internships in the conservation field, preparing them for in-state employment in conservation careers. Project Location: Anchorage, Alaska. Yakutat Youth Community Corps Project NFWF-USFS Funds: $39,994 City and Borough of Yakutat, Alaska NFWF Non-Federal Funds: $10,000 Matching Funds: $237,530 Total Project Funds: $287,524 Project Description: City and Borough of Yakutat will partner with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) and the Tongass National Forest Yakutat Ranger District (YRD) to employ a 10-person NCCC youth crew in meaningful, hands-on conservation projects in coordination with multiple project partners. The project will expand community capacity to accomplish high-priority habitat 1 | May 2, 2016 restoration projects while engaging crew members in professional training and natural resource land management experiences within a remote and unique Alaskan landscape. This project will treat invasive plants along the Yakutat Forelands, maintain trails to repair damaged fish and wildlife habitat, cleanup marine debris and trash from shorelines and waterways, and educate the local community about the restoration work. The project will benefit the Yakutat Community, and will be carried out in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, City of Yakutat, Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Department of Transportation, Yakutat School District, National Park Service, and the Rasmuson Foundation. Project Location: Yakutat on the northern coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Arizona Ancestral Lands Conservation Program DOI 21CSC Funds: $74,400 Conservation Legacy Project Description: Conservation Legacy will work with the National Park Service to place an Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps crew on the North Rim of Grand Canyon. The shortened visitor season on the North Rim, and park ‐wide reductions in staffing over the last five years, has led to the development of a large backlog of deferred maintenance needs across all divisions. Potential projects for 2016 include a vegetation program, visitor and resource protection and interdisciplinary cultural resources program, and wildlife habitat improvements and re-vegetation projects located on the North Rim. Project Location: Toroweap Overlook, Tuweep Ranger Station and other sites at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Copper Mountain Loop DOI 21CSC Funds: $40,000 Student Conservation Association Project Description: In partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, as Student Conservation Corps team, comprised of five young adult members and one leader, will assist in the construction of new trail as part of the Black Canyon National Recreation Trail (BCNRT). The proposed new trail area is the Copper Mountain Loop at the northwestern end of the BCNRT, where the team will complete four weeks of work to assist the Hassayampa Field Office. This loop trail will serve to concentrate impact in a recreation area that is rapidly increasing in popularity and will provide valuable training and experience for SCA corps members. Work projects may involve one or more of the following activities: using hand tools/chainsaws to clear vegetation from trail corridor, construction of new tread consistent with required standards, installation of water drainage structures as necessary, and addition of new signage. Project Location: Copper Mountain Loop at the Black Canyon National Recreation Trail in Arizona. Native American Conservation Corps DOI 21CSC Funds: $48,400 Arizona Conservation Corps Project Description: Arizona Conservation Corps will engage Native American participants and crew leaders in paid conservation service work on public and Tribal lands and waters in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Corporation for National and Community Service. A crew of five Native young adults ages 18-24 and one Native crew leader will spend 22 weeks camping, working and travelling 2 | May 2, 2016 together, working on 30-40 hours of recreation and reforestation projects each week, to meet the region’s highest priority conservation needs. Project work is anticipated to include desert restoration, recreation, and trail improvements with the Tonto National Forest and maintenance and construction of trails in municipal parks across Maricopa County. Project Location: Tonto National Forest; Maricopa County, Arizona. Removal of Invasive Buffelgrass DOI 21CSC Funds: $14,000 Arizona Conservation Corps Project Description: Arizona Conservation Corps will work with the Bureau of Reclamation to engage 8- 10 youth in the removal of invasive buffelgrass at the Cibola Valley Conservation and Wildlife Area. Reclamation will benefit from this project by decreasing the risk of fire at the Wildlife Area through control of this invasive species of grass. The absence of buffelgrass would promote the growth of native grasses and understory plants, which provide habitat for species of concern, such as Arizona cotton rat. Project Location: Cibola Valley Conservation and Wildlife Area, Arizona. Riparian Restoration Practical Training and Support NFWF-BLM Funds: $23,000 Arizona Conservation Corps NFWF-Reclamation Funds: $18,000 Matching Funds: $42,903 Total Project Funds: $83,903 Project Description: Arizona Conservation Corps will restore riparian habitat in the Gila and Verde River watersheds in Arizona by engaging 16 young people on two crews. Crews will receive technical training and support from agency experts on species identification and the mechanical and chemical treatment of invasives species such as salt cedar, giant reed, tree of heaven, and Russian olive. Crews also will work to establish native species. This project will restore 85 acres of habitat. Project Location: Five project sites in the Upper Gila Watershed that span the Gila Valley from Geronimo to Pima, Arizona. Youth Engaged Stewardship (YES!) at the Las Cienegas NFWF-BLM Funds: $28,192 National Conservation Area in Southeast Arizona NFWF Non-Federal Funds: $10,000 Matching Funds: $53,450 Cienega Watershed Partnership Total Project Funds: $91,642 Project Description: Cienega Watershed Partnership will select up to 38 youth to train in team-building skills, learn to assess site issues in critical grasslands of southeast Arizona, and design and implement restoration projects at the Bureau of Land Management Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. YES! participants will monitor study plots and watershed health indicators, test specific treatments to restore threatened riparian sacaton grassland and enhance aquatic wetland habitats which support native species including the Chiracahua Leopard Frog, Mexican Garter Snake, and native fish through removing non- native vegetation, transplanting natives vegetation and creating micro-habitats for ponds. Mentors and scientists will train youth in topics pertinent to restoration on public lands, including stakeholder involvement, ecosystem components, mapping and monitoring, hydrological systems, indicator species, restoration techniques, and land management. Project Location: Las Cienegas National Conservation Area near Sonoita, Arizona. 3 | May 2, 2016 California Auburn Shaded Fuel Break DOI 21CSC Funds: $25,000 California Conservation Corps Project Description: California Conservation Corps will engage youth to develop and maintain a shaded fuel break (SFB) atop the American River Canyon along the urban-wildland interface zone between the City of Auburn and the Auburn State Recreation Area (ASRA). The entire project totals 250 acres and encompasses the entire eastern border of Auburn. The fuel break will consist
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